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From Professor Julio M Ottino, McCormick School of Engineering, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, US ...

Whittaker, who is head of the Signal encrypted messaging service company, ended the article with a call for tech to be “an infrastructure for . . . honesty in the face of surveillance”.

I enjoyed your description of the ingredients needed for a vegetarian chilli had the Americas never been “discovered” (“Departments: Reports from lesser known FT bureaux”, Spectrum, Life & Arts, ...

It’s a long time since I’ve read such a depressing piece in the FT as Eric Schmidt’s column “War in the age of AI demands new weaponry” ( Opinion, FT Weekend, September 21).

Architects — keep the kitchen open plan. That’s my plea after reading Bridget Goldberg’s piece on home design trends (“Closing the door on the open-plan kitchen”, Interiors, House & Home, September 7) ...

As someone who has been interested in fashion since the 1970s, and aware of the sadly dull level of fashion journalism, I was enormously cheered by Kati Chitrakorn’s crystal-clear, expertly ...

Regarding Edwin Heathcote’s Weekend Essay on Stevenage and England’s postwar policy of building new towns (“My kind of towns”, Life & Arts, September 28), I grew up in Hitchin, around seven or so ...

From Mala Tu, Calne, Wiltshire, UK ...

US President Joe Biden said Israel should be looking at “other alternatives” than striking Iranian oilfields, as it prepares its response to Tehran’s missile attacks on Israel earlier this week.

Smith’s departure comes after the Judicial Conduct Investigations Office (Jico), which deals with complaints against judges, said in August that he had been reprimanded for serious misconduct after ...

The Middle East was set to change from the moment Hamas militants broke through the security barrier around Gaza on October 7, crossed into Israel and killed more Jews than on any day since the ...